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Rail-dbGaP

Rail-dbGaP

Rail-dbGaP is a tool to analyze protected data on a commercial cloud, compliant with The National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines. The Rail-dbGaP protocol works with all tools that run on Amazon Web Services Elastic MapReduce. See also Rail-RNA in the links.

Topic

RNA-seq; Data management; Data security

Details

  • Operation: Query and retrieval
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface; AWS Command Line Interface; Web user interface
  • Language: -
  • Operating system: Linux
  • License: The MIT License
  • Cost: Free
  • Version name: 0.1.0
  • Maturity: Stable
  • Credit: NIH/NIGMS, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) at Johns Hopkins University, Sloan Research Fellowship, AWS in Education Research.
  • Contact: Nellore A anellore _at_ gmail.com | Langmead B langmea _at_ cs.jhu.edu
  • Collection: -

Publications

Nellore A, Wilks C, Hansen KD, Leek JT, Langmead B "Rail-dbGaP: analyzing dbGaP-protected data in the cloud with Amazon Elastic MapReduce." Bioinformatics. 2016 Aug 15;32(16):2551-3. Epub 2016 Apr 21. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw177
PMID: 27153614
PMCID: PMC4978928


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